For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Character is revealed through action.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.